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A Brexiteer lashed out at Sir Keir Starmer amid studies he’s near placing a defence take care of the EU on the expense of British fisherman. The Prime Minister has reportedly made main concessions to Brussels on fishing rights to ensure that UK corporations to have the ability to bid for the brand new €150 billion EU safety fund .

But former Brexit Party MEP Brian Monteith accused Sir Keir of getting ready to capitulate to the bloc within the title of “greater co-operation”. Writing in The Scotsman, he mentioned: “The answer, we have already been told, is to give even greater access to foreign boats to our fishing grounds or any defence deal will be off – leaving most rational people asking what has fishing quotas got to do with protecting countries that don’t have a sea border or have haddock or herring in their typical diet?

“A youth trade scheme will probably be claimed as essential, but nobody will clarify the way it may discourage Putin from invading one other European nation or why the various unemployed younger Europeans ought to have advantageous entry to our cash-strapped universities, our healthcare methods or the falling variety of vacancies out there to our personal youth.

“Soon it will be revealed to the public that the Prime Minister’s negotiation skills have triumphed for the benefit of our national interest – when it is a capitulation of the highest order.

“It will probably be claimed he has strengthened our safety and defence by establishing a sequence of agreements – when actually his achievement will probably be at hand over what the EU has at all times wished – our navy muscle and cash, and our compliance and supplication to its personal pursuits, world view and techniques.”

It comes as the PM will host a UK-EU summit on May 19 as he pushes for a Brexit “reset”.

Speaking today, Sir Keir said: “We need to reset our relationships with Europe, to enhance these relations.

“That’s been brought into sharp focus in the last three or four months on the question of security and defence, we have to recognise we’re moving into a new era where all Europeans need to step up on security and defence, and that’s the discussions we’re having with the EU and others.

“I additionally suppose on commerce and the financial system that we have to step up and reset.

“And so those are the changes that I hope we can make in an important summit that will be a milestone in May.”